{"id":7606,"date":"2014-03-15T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2014-03-15T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?p=7606"},"modified":"2014-03-15T12:14:39","modified_gmt":"2014-03-15T17:14:39","slug":"skinny-saturday-protein-drinks-are-not-all-equal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/?p=7606","title":{"rendered":"Skinny Saturday: Protein Drinks are NOT all equal"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Today is my crazy contest day so I’ve written up a post beforehand–no, I didn’t get up extra early just to write a post about protein powder–that would be crazy!)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Exhibit A, B & C<\/p><\/div>\n

(As you can tell Exhibit A didn’t actually come in that can–it’s actually a slimfast can re-purposed.\u00a0 The other can was too huge to put in my cupboard…)<\/p>\n

Protein powders are NOT all equal:<\/p>\n

So, I decided to start drinking a protein “shake” mid morning after my workouts to help with weight loss and keep me from getting ravenously hungry.\u00a0 These are the three kinds I’ve tried over the past few months (in order starting with A then B and now I’m currently drinking C).\u00a0 The first kind (vanilla flavored) was just ok.\u00a0 Not great, but tolerable.\u00a0 At first I would down it as quickly as I could without breathing because I didn’t like the flavor, but after a while it grew to where I could drink it in 2 gulps–again, not really enjoying it.\u00a0 Then I moved to B (chocolate flavored).\u00a0 That was really good.\u00a0 I actually drank it in 2 or 3 gulps without cringing.\u00a0 Who knew protein shakes could be–dare I say it?–tasty?\u00a0 And believe it or not, it actually had more protein per serving than A.\u00a0 Then I moved into C (chocolate peanut butter flavored).\u00a0 NOT GOOD.\u00a0 It makes the first one seem yummy.\u00a0 I think I’ve decided that I like peanut butter, but I don’t like synthesized peanut butter flavor.\u00a0 The powder itself smells really decadent and delicious–but it does not taste that way.\u00a0 So, we’re back to one giant gulp without breathing again.<\/p>\n

Oh, well, now I know!\u00a0 And in Tim’s defense (since he’s the one who bought them for me) he THOUGHT he had grabbed the chocolate flavor.\u00a0 We didn’t even know there was a chocolate peanut butter flavor… now we do.\u00a0 And so do you.\u00a0 And you should not drink it.<\/p>\n

But since we already own it, and it’s wasteful not to… I’m going to power through and finish it.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Today is my crazy contest day so I’ve written up a post beforehand–no, I didn’t get up extra early just to write a post about protein powder–that would be crazy!) (As you can tell Exhibit A didn’t actually come in that can–it’s actually a slimfast can re-purposed.\u00a0 The other can was too huge to put […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[42],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7606"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7606"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7626,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7606\/revisions\/7626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}